Should Canada enact a quota that would force movie theatres to show a certain percentage of Canadian movies? The idea, writes Dan Brown, is “based on a false assumption: that the average ticket buyer actively seeks out Canadian movies. The young performer might like to believe this is true, but this is not how the majority of movie lovers behave in the real world. Before the average person goes to the theatre on a Friday night, they don’t say to their friends, ‘Is there anything Canadian playing? I’m in the mood for something domestically made.’ Instead, they say, ‘Is there anything good playing?’ The public has moved beyond making its choices based on a film’s nationality, if that ever truly mattered.”